I read some website that said the dollar was gonna collapse on September 27 because OPEC and China will stop trading in dollars and Russia will push them to use their gold-backed currency,... It looks like "just a bunch of hooey" as was the last time they said "OH MEH GOD TEH DOLLAR IS GUNNA CULLAPS ON <some date here>!!!!1!!one"

But I do know that due to the nature of fiat money paired with the credit system, it is a ponzi scheme and mathematically certain that it will eventually collapse, we just don't really know when it's gonna happen...

So I'm wondering, should I work on my mods and release them sooner, (possibly) only to have all of it mean nothing and "here be the end" OR everything goes fine for a while longer and people get to use it, or should I set-up Minecraft with a metric-shitton of mods and play it for the next day orso, which would also possibly end in total uselessness OR it doesn't happen on the 27 and I then start working on my mods again, except later than I would ha

or 3.) make a "fry-not-sure" meme about it and spend the rest of time until the 27 sharing it in as many places as I possibly can, having either the result of being totally useless and meaning nothind due to "here be the end", or being very useful for making people go "hey wtf is minetest?" and go look it up, possibly learning about it and going "oh cool, I can mod it easy and make whatever I want, and its free!" and becoming a life member of the co

Well you know how the central bank prints money? Lets say everyone starts with 0 and then they print up a billion bucks. They loan this billion bucks to a smaller bank, to be paid back plus interest. But the interest doesn't exist yet - so the bank is in debt. In order to pay back the debt, the small bank loans the money out to be paid back plus interest. The people get the money to pay for the interest by selling goods/services to people who use so

me other bank, said other bank also getting $1bil from the fed to pay back plus interest. Now the second small bank and its people are in debt, and the first small bank can just get by paying back all of the money plus interest. The fed has to keep printing more money, and loan it out making even more debt, in order for the people currently in debt to pay off their debt.

There is always more unpaid interest/debt being created. The only way for people currently in debt to pay it back, is to get money from other people who have to get money from the bank - the debt gets moved around, and increases every time.

it's a bit more complicated than that, with more features and the like, but none of those features reduce the total debt in the system. Most of them (like credit) just move it around more effectively, or make more of it faster.

diamonds are not really rare or difficult to mine, but they are extremely hard and thus have many uses in industry, and girls like them, so they are valuable even if we had mountains of them sitting around

I was thinking about making a Central Bank mod, where you can start a country and build a central bank system, complete with all of the features of the existing system, and then watch as the economy booms and then collapses

we can make a table of locked chests owned by each player, and the thugs go raid them if the debt isn't paid back for some time, attacking the player if they are nearby and taking from their inventory too

then once they get all of the stuff to pay back the debt plus whatever they want to take, they return to the bank, dump all of the stuff for the debt into a special system, dump all of the stuff they took for themselves into their own virtual storage (owned by the bank), then despawn until its time to go raid again

That is also possible, but it wouldn't make sense if the thugs can come take whatever is valuable enough to pay back the debt. Maybe if there isn't enough stuff owned by the player, they get sent to prison and used by the bank to mine or farm or whatever until the debt is paid back plus interest that accumulates over time

then what if the player doesn't have enough stuff to pay back the debt, even if the thugs empty all of the chests, take the chests, and dismantle all valuable nodes (wood, brick, etc.) in the areas the player owns

However, nothing would be a constant; a player has to create the bank, and the smaller banks, and print the money from paper and ink, and all of the rest. That way, when it falls apart, the world still makes sense and the upset players can burn down their evil bank and start over

gold-backed currency is usually better, except when fractional reserve banking is applied, because then the bank can issue more gold-redeemable notes than there is gold to pay for all of them, resulting in a famous bank run when people realize whats going on

We could use some other mods of mine, like this one that makes the creation of tools and collection of resources much more complex, inspiring people to specialize in a specific job in order to get anything done and "make a living",... because you would need to have food too

it would be virtually impossible to mine metals, process them into tools and stuff, and farm food; the first few players would have to forage for food as they set-up simple dwellings, then farm food while others make more advanced tools to work with wood to make better dwellings, then use tools to get the first metals and build a foundry, and so on - like the development of civilization in the real world

and when the "system" falls apart, it turns into a scavenger world for some time, where people dismantle unuseable technology to get the stuff to make what they need just to get by, until civilization can start over

Okay what's waste for animals in nature is food for the bacteria/fungus that makes its own waste, which is food for plants; CO2 is waste for animals but plants need it, and O2 is waste for plants but animals need it

I don't like the fact that when a tool is damaged from use, its material doesn't "fall off" and become part of nearby nodes, which can be recovered later, and recycled back into the same tool (needing energy for the process)

we could also "make it" where the iron dust falls off into the player inventory, and when the tool breaks they get chunks of whatever is less, which would always add up to 100% the material used to make the tool... or it only "falls apart" once it breaks, but the material is returned.

sure it doesn't really matter much since the whole world is full of ores that won't ever be mined up entirely, but it just makes sense to me, and I don't like mass being destroyed in a handwavium-ish fashion

If the process for making tools is complex enough, and the material its made of can be used for more costly other stuff like machines, then we can just make the tools become less efficient as they are damaged, and finally totally useless metal beat into a glob, which has to be melted down to use it again - there would still be the incentive to collect more raw iron or whatever material, because more machines are needed

it doesn't have to be closer to reality, but I feel like it should st least make some kind of sense, even a sense of its own that isn't real,... like a metal Adamantium thats extremely strong, but doesnt exist in reality

actually, most of the energy from a gas-powered car is free, because we didn't put the energy into the gas - the sun put it into plants millions of years ago, which turned into oil then got processed into gas

like the cylon from battlestar galactica, turning a crank-generator to charge its batteries - we all thought "wtf? isnt he using more energy to turn the crank though?" about 5 minutes after the show goes off

If you say all space everywhere is a source of huge amounts of energy that we can't see (quantum vacuum fluctuations), and you devised a way to tap this energy, would it break the law of conservation of energy?

we're not even sure if the universe itself is or is not a closed system, because nobody has sent equipment outside the universe to "look at" it and determine if it is gaining (or losing) energy from some other source (or staying constant) - not that this technology is even possible to build, or that it would even be possible to send it "outside" the universe...

if all space everywhere were a source of infinite quantities of energy (quantum vacuum fluctuations), and you create a device that can harness some of this energy to produce usable power, does that violate the law of conservation of energy?

If they were totally empty, we'd know right where the particles/energy were/was (nowhere) while also knowing it's direction (no direction, as it doesn't exist). Because both can't be set in stone at the same time, there turns out to be some strange energy.

They say that there's particles "popping into and out of existence" all the time, and that half of them are antimatter, which explains background radiation. However, if there were really that many antimatter particles being created too, and annihilating with regular matter particles, the radiation would be so intense that life as we know it would not be possible.

However, if there were really that many antimatter particles being created too, and annihilating with regular matter particles, the radiation would be so intense that life as we know it would not be possible.

Instead, the matter particles are pulled from the vacuum leaving behind a negative energy "hole", which sums to 0 when they annihilate so no radiation is produced. Then we still have those other sources (radioactive decay, neutrino collisions, cosmic rays, etc.) which already explain the presence of background radiation and in the quantities present.

because if they say the supposed "antimatter" particles are actually negative energy, they would break one of the biggest rules of the business: don't give away the "secret sauce", ie. don't let people have knowledge that is determined they are not supposed to have

They don't talk about negative energy, because it would validate the explanation for several power-producing inventions (VTA, for example) which are said to harness "negative energy" (cold electricity), and this would be detrimental to the profits of fuel businesses because people wouldn't need fuel to get power

Tesla invented a pretty neat "system of signalling" which supposedly doesn't operate on the same basis as radio, and is much more efficient (less loss over distance, or none at all) - there's even some patents on it. I plan to replicate it sometime soon, and possibly even create a wireless internet system using it

whats most interesting is that some few decades later, some computer scientists went to get a patent for the basic logic cates like AND, OR, NOT, and they were denied because the functionality of the AND gate is a significant part of one of Tesla's "System of Signaling" patents

Awesome :D very awesome, I heard of this a while ago when listening to a YouTube video of another Tesla fan who also tries to indulge in what many of the day called dark arts or science as it is referred to now

There's nothing about this on Wikipedia, and there probably never will be.. so I have to scavenge for information wherever I can find it.. One guy says that the size of the metal sphere aerial doesn't have to be perfect, just above some size relative to the properties of the flat coil (number of turns, wire size, etc.)

I'm going to buy some steel spheres from China some day if I can get the money, and I will use those... it won't be easy to connect the wires to them, though - I may have to use a torch or pay a welder to do it, if the copper will even have the chance to "stick" before melting off (spot welder maybe?)

Yes, without greed the world would already have his great technology pretty much everywhere,... free power for everyone everywhere, flying machines that don't use propellers or wings or burn any fuel, wireless communication that goes right through the earth with no drop in power,...

If I ever sell or give away some of them, I will dip the frequency tuning inductors in some kind of resin to prevent them being adjusted later - I don't want people to adjust the frequency accidentally, or make a unit designed solely to interfere with others' systems

If they work according to Tesla's patents and submissions to science journals/magazines, they would work just as well through a forest, as through a mountain, or a cubic mile of lead, or clear air - the scattering/absorption would be minimal or none at all

I'm thinking I could also build each unit pair to use two frequencies, and an AND gate to only output a pulse when both are active, so that there are more possible "addresses" for the possible frequency range, but then each unit would need 4 sphere-coil pairs (one for each transmitter, one for each receiver), unless there is some way to use one sphere (most expensive part) for both transmit and receive on different frequencies,... I may examine exis

Well it has been wonderful meeting you Segfault22 I and many other will know your name before your end has come that I'm certain of. I better get some rest before my words start meshing together to form illegible sentences

maybe I could use a duplexer or a circulator, to separate the transmit/receive signals from two different coils; however I will have to do testing to make sure that the device works with the supposed "dielectricity" happening in the system (signals but no current), either requiring a specific part that just happens to be compatible or a custom-made one...